Word: inde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of work." For Shaw, the big race at the Speedway was worth more than a year-it was worth his whole life. From the day he first raced (and thoroughly wrecked) his own car-a homemade "bag of bolts"-at a half-mile, fairgrounds track in Lafayette, Ind., he was headed...
...Ironing Boards. Like Caltech. DuBridge also emerged out of an unlikely background. Born in Terre Haute. Ind., the son of a Y.M.C.A. physical-education instructor, he grew up in a succession of cities from Mount Vernon. Iowa to San Jose, Calif, to Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Though Lee fished in Lake Superior and watched the ships pass through the locks, he was better known as that studious young fellow in knickers who was so often with a book. At one time, he tried to be a reporter ("but I was too scared to go up and ask the right people...
...auto industry passed the 3,000,000 mark in 1955 auto production, the earliest that mark has ever been reached. Lined with brightly colored new cars (even some in girdle pink), parking lots are taking on the appearance of petunia beds. Said Drug Salesman John Tinder of Seymour, Ind.: "There's one feller in town who has a black car. Why, everybody knows where he is all the time...
...dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier Guards), good military record (wounded three times in World War I), good marriage (the second daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire...
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, will not reappear before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to answer charges by Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) that he had "praised Communism" and had "discredited the American economy...